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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Simpang in Indonesia

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Simpang in Indonesia on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 79.65 km (49 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 106.4466 East, latitude -7.3513 South, depth = 79.65 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 08:01:09 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/04/16 / 2016-04-13 01:01:09 / April 13, 2016 @ 1:01 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us20005hnm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20005hnm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Bogor (c. 800 000 pop), 72 km (44 miles) from Sukabumi (c. 276 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Ciampea (c. 207 200 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Caringin (c. 91 800 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Cicurug (c. 89 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Pelabuhanratu (c. 43 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ciampea, Bogor, Caringin (min 5000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km SW of Simpang, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	106.4466° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.3513° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	79.65 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	1km SW of Simpang, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-04-13 01:01:09	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-13 02:18:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	420	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	0	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	284	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.974	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	141	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005hnm	Id of event.
Event Code	20005hnm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005hnm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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